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Having travelled around Ireland with a fridge and playing the Moldovan football team at tennis, Tony Hawks decided it was time to settle down in the countryside. It was only a matter of time until he was asked to be involved in the local Bingo...

In 2006, Dylan Evans founded The Utopia Experiment. An experiment in the Scottish countryside where a group of volunteers lived out a post-apocalyptic scenario free of technology and all other modern comforts. Having now left the experiment, he's written a book about his experiences? Could it have ever succeeded?

Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk becomes to the first memoir to win the prestigious award for non-fiction writing.

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